Premier Engineering-Led Provider of IT Solutions and Services Adds New Validation for Cohesity's Consolidated Approach to Secondary Storage

SANTA CLARA, CA and IRVINE, CA--(Marketwired - May 11, 2016) - Cohesity, the pioneer of hyperconverged secondary storage, and Trace3, a pioneer in digital business transformation, today announced a strategic partnership that will help more companies take control of massive data growth and complex storage environments by consolidating secondary storage workloads onto an infinitely scalable, intelligent data platform.

The new partnership enables Cohesity to leverage the industry's best engineering talent throughout the Western United States, empowering more than 2,000 existing Trace3 customers to reap the benefits of hyperconverged secondary storage. It will also expand Trace3's impressive portfolio of new, innovative and disruptive technology partners, enabling Trace3 to design and deliver solutions that help customers achieve their business objectives.

"Our partnership with Trace3 is another major milestone for the Cohesity Data Platform, showing industry validation from a leading provider of new IT solutions that deliver real value to customers," said Joe Barnes, head of worldwide channel strategy at Cohesity. "We're honored to work with their incredibly accomplished team to help more companies realize the benefits of hyperconverged secondary storage."

Trace3, an engineering-led organization, is focused on delivering innovative solutions uniquely tailored to each customer's technology and business needs. Clients rely on Trace3 to research, introduce, and recommend technology that drives innovation and provides competitive advantage in their respective markets. With over 250 highly certified engineers collaborating with customers every day, Trace3 takes a consultative approach to ensure solutions are designed to meet business objectives and drive measureable business value.

Cohesity's hyperconverged secondary storage platform helps companies overcome challenges stemming from the increasing size and complexity of data held across the organization. By consolidating fragmented point solutions to handle backup, file services, analytics, and other secondary storage use cases on a unified, intelligent platform, customers are able to reduce their overall storage footprint and gain immediate and actionable insight into data usage and type.

"The Research and Innovation team at Trace3 identifies and vets disruptive new technologies that solve real business problems, and we quickly recognized the value of Cohesity in the market for secondary storage solutions," said Trace3 President Chad Cardenas. "We look forward to delivering value by implementing the Cohesity Data Platform to address customers' secondary storage pain points."

About Trace3As an integrated Transformative IT Authority, Trace3 is the premier provider of IT solutions and consultation services. Through elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower executives and organizations to keep pace within the corporate landscape.

About Cohesity Cohesity delivers the industry's first hyperconverged secondary storage system for consolidating backup, test/dev, file services, and analytic datasets, onto an infinitely scalable, intelligent data platform. With Cohesity, IT organizations achieve far greater operational efficiency and agility in managing their data assets on-premise and in the cloud. Cohesity counts Credit Acceptance, Cvent, GS1, and Tribune Media among its growing base of enterprise customers. For more information, visit www.cohesity.com.